Calvin Set for SET

October 31, 2005

The second-annual Kent County SET tournament will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, November 5, in the Commons Lecture Hall at Calvin College.

The 2005 tournament, featuring inventor Marsha Falco's card game of perception and mathematical reasoning, will feature more levels of competition and more games.

Players aged six to 18, drawn from area schools, will be grouped according to age and playing ability. In each age division, the top prize winner will receive a $75 gift certificate, with a $50 gift certificate going to second place, and a $25 gift certificate going to third place.

In addition to judging the tournament, her primary role in last year's event, Falco will lecture and teach her games both on and off the Calvin campus, including a talk on Thursday at Calvin's popular Noontime Series (free and open to the public) and competition from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday with Calvin students in Johnny's Café.

Falco, a geneticist, created the first SET game in 1974 after using cards to memorize genetic traits in German shepherd dogs. In 1991, her family began marketing the game, which has won several awards.

The SET game's 81 cards are marked with groups of one, two or three symbols that are categorized by shape (oval, diamond, squiggle) color (red, green, purple) or shading (open, colored, striped).

Players compete to find the most "sets" of three cards that are either all alike or all different.

For the complete story see
http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2005_06/set.htm

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Received on Mon Oct 31 10:26:33 2005